Comments on: Analysis: Rowan Williams’ time as Archbishop of Canterbury and his views on LGBT rightshttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/
PinkNews Gay news, reviews and comment from Europe's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans news serviceTue, 03 Mar 2015 18:48:00 +0000hourly1By: Peterhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-289743
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:53:11 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-289743Well, there’s always the Ordinariate. He wouldn’t be a bishop anymore because he is married, but I’m sure they’d let him keep the mitre.
]]>By: Katie murphy ex catholic familyhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-289434
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:05:46 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-289434your an optimist. People like williams are living in the 5th century. Chances of him changing are small, though miracles do happen.

As for the current pope in rome, who Unexcommunicated a bishop williamson holocaust denier, a hanging from the basilica of st peters would be appropriate. After a reconvening of the nuremburg trials.

]]>By: billywingartensonhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-289428
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:49:55 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-289428save us a lot of bullets when we finally rid the world of the curse of the west – christian-islam
]]>By: billywingartensonhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-289427
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:48:40 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-289427AT least the gay clergy have their natural sex fun with other gay clergy.

its the unmarried / unmarriable clergy who rape children world wide.

Add to the carnage- the catholic church condems masterbation – but ignores it when their priests masterbate children.

We still live in the dark ages of human insanity, until religion is most seen as nothing but a sick joke to provide money, power and ego satisfaction to pedos.

Burn them all at the stake – alesson we learned from the catholic church’s doing that to women. Same btw with some protestants.

]]>By: Mary Marriotthttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288883
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:23:53 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288883He chose to speak for lgbt in the Body’s Grace to the lesbian and gay christian movment; and to the gay clergy Consultation etc.

He chose to renage as soon as he set foot in Labeth Palais

]]>By: Mary Marriotthttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288882
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:20:59 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288882Even if he does it wont do much for me as I’ve felt so disillusioned by his blowing hot and cold
]]>By: Rogerhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288849
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:39:11 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288849I hear he is taking the Caiaphas Chair in Theological Prevarication at Cambridge. God help any good man taking his place.
]]>By: Ianhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288824
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:45:19 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288824he’s wearing Gold, probably because he’s an Archbishop but also possibly because it was the liturgical colour at the time of the photograph, basically the great Festivals (such as Easter Sunday).
]]>By: de Villiershttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288783
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:48:48 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288783Really – faith is much, much more than that. If you do not understand it, just admit the same rather than trying to interpret something through a lens which does not admit such an inquiry.

Theology as a discipline requires proper intellectual effort in the same way as any subject of the arts.

]]>By: de Villiershttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288782
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:45:00 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288782Of course you can. Theology is the textual study of ancient literature, the re-interpretation of it and the understanding of the underlying meanings.

To say that time is better spent on a cancer cure than theology or literature is to conflate two concepts – that of external achievement and rational enquiry with that of internal introspection and artistic understanding.

]]>By: Krishttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288675
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:02:45 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288675Oh good, you came back. OK, I want to know what happens if I say,

“I believe in equal marriage only between 2 non related individuals of opposite or same sex. I believe this based purely on my own selfish, prejudiced beliefs”

So now what? Is it like Highlander – there can be only one hypocritical bigot so you absorb my power and become even more bigoted?

Or does winning just means that you get to go on top? Just if that’s the case then we need to educate you that terms like faecal passage don’t pass as dirty talk. And don’t even get me started on finding a man size paper bag :P

]]>By: .poo push deviants'http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288646
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:14:48 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288646Harry. Are you in favour of full marriage equality, including those incestuous that cannot conceive and those in multpile partnerships? If not, why not?
]]>By: Harryhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288644
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:07:02 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288644You waste your time praying. How curious.
]]>By: Harryhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288643
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:05:50 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288643What rubbish. You simply abrogate the principle of law which says that the promotion of religion is a proper charitable object.
]]>By: Alexxhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288626
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:34:09 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288626Oh Dear, Oh Dear ! what a shame that the archbishop, whose ability to keep together, the warring arms of the anglican church is to resign. He was as much use in the job as a chocolate fireguard, and unfortunatley,his successor may do a better job (and that wont be difficult!), which wont be good news for humanity, if history is anything to go by.
]]>By: clappityhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288619
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:55:49 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288619I think he is too old, to be a credible replacement.
]]>By: Paul Halsallhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/16/archbishop-of-canterbury-will-stand-down-this-year/comments/#comment-288603
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:26:16 +0000http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?p=27631#comment-288603Although I disagreed with Archbishop Williams over homosexuality (I welcome gay and lesbian bishops and equality in marriage), I have heard him speak and read his writings. He is a major intellectual, and perhaps one of the most intellectual perceptive people to have reached a major public role in British history.

I am very sorry to see him go.

I hope and pray he successfully sees through the full acceptance of female bishops before he retires; I hope and pray his “Anglican Covenant” fails; and I hope and pray his previous support for gay people will be able to manifest itself in his retirement.